Violent Python: A Cookbook for Hackers, Forensic Analysts, Penetration Testers and Security Engineers

"Python is a hacker's language. With its decreased complexity, increased efficiency, limitless third-party libraries, and low bar to entry, Python provides an excellent development platform to build your own offensive tools. If you are running Mac OS X or Linux, odds are it is already installed on your system. While a wealth of offensive tools already exist, learning Python can help you with the difficult cases where those tools fail"--
An information security specialist with the US Army, O'Connor introduces the hacker's programming language Python to new users, and describes some advanced features to those who already know it. After explaining the basic features and commands, he discusses penetration testing, forensic investigations, network traffic analysis, wireless mayhem, web reconnaissance, and antivirus evasion. Syngress Media is an imprint of Elsevier. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Violent Python shows you how to move from a theoretical understanding of offensive computing concepts to a practical implementation. Instead of relying on another attacker’s tools, this book will teach you to forge your own weapons using the Python programming language. This book demonstrates how to write Python scripts to automate large-scale network attacks, extract metadata, and investigate forensic artifacts. It also shows how to write code to intercept and analyze network traffic using Python, craft and spoof wireless frames to attack wireless and Bluetooth devices, and how to data-mine popular social media websites and evade modern anti-virus. - Demonstrates how to write Python scripts to automate large-scale network attacks, extract metadata, and investigate forensic artifacts. - Write code to intercept and analyze network traffic using Python. Craft and spoof wireless frames to attack wireless and Bluetooth devices. - Data-mine popular social media websites and evade modern anti-virus.